| Marie Hamstra |
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Marie Hamstra is excited to be holding a salamander egg mass she found while taking data on species found at this pond at the Purdue summer camp in 2006.
She is a senior in Wildlife. Marie enjoys the interpretation and outreach side of Wildlife and hopes to become an interpretive naturalist. |
| Kat Lillie |
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Kat Lillie is a fifth year senior in Purdue’s Wildlife Program. She is also studying Spanish in the school of Liberal Arts. This past summer she worked with the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment where she monitored eastern box turtles. Upon graduation in May she hopes to obtain more field experience with herps before eventually persuing an MS degree. |
| Olga Kildesheva |
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I'm a senior in Natural Resources. My current interests are very
broad and include everything from herpetology and ecotoxicology to climate change mitigation and environmental policy. I hope to attend graduate school after graduation.
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| Kate Faust |
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Kate Faust is a senior pursuing a degree in Wildlife with a minor in Psychology. Here she is inspecting a specimen of her favorite fish, the longear sunfish as part of her work creating an inventory of all the fish specimens in Purdue's collection. This work was part of her duties as an undergraduate teaching assistant for Dr. Williams' FNR 242 class. Her future goals include graduating in May and finding a job as a dolphin trainer or zookeeper.
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| Amy Densborn |
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Amy is a senior in Wildlife Biology and hopes to continue working with the Student Conservation Association (SCA) after graduation. Her main focus with this degree is to develop environmental awareness and to expand on conservation and management plans for local communities. |
| Matt Aghai |
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I'm a wildlife major with a strong interest in forestry. I hope to further my knowledge in related fields by continuing on to an MS degree after graduating from Purdue in May. Currently, I am a field technician collecting data on the effects of timber harvests on terrestrial salamanders. |
| Greg Stephens |
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Greg worked in the herpetology collection from 2005-07, but has since graduated and obtained a position as a herpetology research technician for the IN Dept. of Nat. Resources. |
| Jason Braunecker |
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Jason worked for me for several years in all aspects of the vertebrate collection. He graduated in December 2005 and is now a conservation law enforcement officer in Missouri. |
| Scott Hecht |
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Scott was a senior in our wildlife program as well as a member of the Purdue track team. Scott assisted me with herp collection in the spring of 2004. Scott is now in working on garter snakes for his MS degree at Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne. |
| Brooke Williams |
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Brooke worked for me for two years preparing specimens and assisting with my salamander research. She has since graduated and moved to Wisconsin where she is teaching environmental science. |
| Kevin Kemp |
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Kevin holding numerous garter snakes. Kevin helped me for three years with anything related to herpetology. He has since graduated and now lives and works in Florida. He is a research biologist specializing in wetlands and their associated wildlife species. |
| Todd Pekny |
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Todd holding a Bald Eagle. Todd worked and prepared dozens of mammal specimens for me. He is now a Conservation Officer for the state of Indiana.
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| Michelle Priddy |
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Michelle holding an Eastern Meadowlark she prepared. Michelle was my first technician and prepared dozens of bird study skins for me. She recently re-enrolled at Purdue University to attend graduate school. |
